Stuff and Nonsense!

I've been working on a new project with years 5 and 6 at St John's C of E School in Buckhurst Hill. Each class is taking part in 5 hours worth of workshops based around scenes from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.

Each of the classes are working on different sections of the story and are creating some colourful interpretations of well-loved characters such as the White Rabbit, the crazy Cook and Alice herself.

That Friday Feeling...

Friday night saw the second monthly Feature Night at Ignite with opportunities for young people in school years 7-11 to take part in free workshops in drama and tea-light holder painting. Over 40 young people took part in at least one of the activities and the feedback was extremely positive.




The young people were asked to leave comments about sessions on cards that could be posted into "the comment box". My personal favourite was "Jen is da best"... I wonder why?!

"Light" by LYT

It's all go at LYT for the next few weeks as we prepare for our first EVER public performance at the switching on of Loughton's Christmas Lights on November 28th.
The group started work on Thursday night to devise a short piece based around the theme of "light". Some of the ideas that came out of the session are really promising and I'm pretty sure we're going to end up with a really great piece that will incorporate ensemble work, movement, singing and some pretty interesting characters! Watch this space for more details about time and location of the performance and for more information about the other events happening to mark the switching on of the lights!

Halloween at Half Term

"Skeletons dance by, clickety-clack. Their snapping teeth go snickety-snack."

It was a busy half term at Roding Valley last week with more than 50 young people between ages 4 and 12 taking part in Arts Workshops based around a Halloween theme. With 5 different workshops available for 3 different age categories, the school was bustling and the creative juices were well and truly flowing!